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<blockquote data-quote="Art Of Flowers" data-source="post: 1554875" data-attributes="member: 375067"><p>Type 2 diabetes suffers can lower blood sugars by eating a low carb diet. Drugs like Metformin only lower blood sugars a little.</p><p></p><p>The reason why you may need glipizide is probably that you are eating too many carbs. Eating too many carbs will also increase your weight. Glipizide stimulates the pancreas to produce more insulin to handle glucose created from carbs and because it aggressively lowers blood sugar levels there is a risk of hypos. If your blood sugar is not spiked by eating high carb foods then you wont need to take glipizide.</p><p></p><p>You need to get a blood glucose meter to check which foods spike your blood sugar. Typically you need to avoid breakfast cereals, bread, potatoes, rice and pasta. Also avoid fruit juice and fruit such as bananas and grapes. Intermittent fasting can also help reduce blood sugars and lose weight. This might be tricky if you work long hours as a HGV driver. Foods like eggs, cheese, salad, avocados, nuts and most vegetables are low carb. You need to find which foods are good to eat using your blood glucose meter and get into the habit of eating the right things. Otherwise you diabetes will get worse and you will end up having to take insulin, which is not good if you are a HGV driver.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Art Of Flowers, post: 1554875, member: 375067"] Type 2 diabetes suffers can lower blood sugars by eating a low carb diet. Drugs like Metformin only lower blood sugars a little. The reason why you may need glipizide is probably that you are eating too many carbs. Eating too many carbs will also increase your weight. Glipizide stimulates the pancreas to produce more insulin to handle glucose created from carbs and because it aggressively lowers blood sugar levels there is a risk of hypos. If your blood sugar is not spiked by eating high carb foods then you wont need to take glipizide. You need to get a blood glucose meter to check which foods spike your blood sugar. Typically you need to avoid breakfast cereals, bread, potatoes, rice and pasta. Also avoid fruit juice and fruit such as bananas and grapes. Intermittent fasting can also help reduce blood sugars and lose weight. This might be tricky if you work long hours as a HGV driver. Foods like eggs, cheese, salad, avocados, nuts and most vegetables are low carb. You need to find which foods are good to eat using your blood glucose meter and get into the habit of eating the right things. Otherwise you diabetes will get worse and you will end up having to take insulin, which is not good if you are a HGV driver. [/QUOTE]
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